Anonymous asked: Okay so Virgil, there's been talk about you from other people saying that you were just trolling about you being affiliated with Gawker and honestly I'm lost. Be honest here, were you actually trolling with that one Honey Badger's post and the events afterwards?

As previously stated, Virgil Texas has been removed from his post here at Your Kickstarter Sucks. As dedicated gamer’s and fierce defenders of ethic’s, we are all deeply disappointed in him. From here on out you can expect that game’s will be treated with the same level of respect and seriousness that we display in our ongoing coverage of ice density.

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Anonymous asked: Hey Virgil, are you actually going to defend yourself or are you going to keep post those dog pics to make people think you're "quirky and clever" to hide the fact that you can't argue?

Anonymous asked: Oh my fucking god, seriously? H____ B_____? That is the most pathetic shit I have ever seen. Y'all used to be good at taking the piss, but that was the weakest showing I have ever seen come from this tumblr. Suck less.

As near as I can tell, Honey Badger Brigade is a trio of pro-Gamergate MRA women who produce execrable podcasts railing against phantasms of feminism and asking buhhhh what about men’s rights?? and other such balderdash. They’re big with literal hate site A Voice For Men, for which one of the Honey Badgers (please don’t make me type those words again) has written.

Anyone who has had any interaction with MRAs or Gamergate people understands that they’re disingenuous, raving paranoiacs who are best ignored
in the hopes they’ll tucker themselves out from yelling about women in video game’s. They’re not the types you’d want around an event called the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo, a convention with a muscular sexual harassment and abuse policy that’s the first item on their FAQs. So if the H____ B_____s wanted to attend Calgary Expo to spread their message of blarggghhhh they needed to employ a little sleight of hand, as The Mary Sue reports:

However, Honey Badger Radio did not use their website to apply for vendor/exhibitor status. The “Honey Badger Brigade” on the Calgary Expo website links to a webcomic site (run by Honey Badger Tieman) instead. If you didn’t think all of this was enough to warrant expulsion from the convention (it is), there’s more.

The H____ B_____s managed to not only secure a booth but raise nearly $10,000 in a homegrown crowdfunding campaign in order to do something no less innocent than:

We plan to infiltrate nerd culture cunningly disguised as their own. Each of us has been carefully crafting a persona of nerdiness through decades of dedication to comics, science fiction, fantasy, comedy games and other geekery, waiting for this moment, our moment to slip among the unaware. Once there we will start distributing the totalitarian message that nerd and gamer culture is… perfectly wonderful just as it is and should be left alone to go it’s own way.

That’s it folks.

As men’s issues advocates and defenders of creator’s rights to create unmolested, that’s what we have to say to the nerds and geeks and gamers. You are fantastic as you are, carry on.

Why, that sounds perfectly reasonable and ap
olitical. Sounds like these folks just wanted to attend the con to spread a message of “keep it up!” and “you’re doing great” to the gamer’s and nerd’s. That must be why 200 MRAs opened their wallets to send people who have spent years blogging about false rape epidemics and spermjacking or whatever to a comic con: positive reinforcement. So what did the H____ B_____s do when they got there? From The Mary Sue again:

Panelist Brittney Le Blanc gave us this account of the events that transpired:

We were about fifteen minut
es into the panel when a woman in the second row stood up and identified herself as a Men’s Rights Activist. She and her male companion both came to raise issues they felt would not be covered by our panel. Raising points about the way men are portrayed in comics struck a note with all the panelists, as we agreed that we want to see a diversity across body types, characters, races, etc in mainstream comics. Not everyone wants to see a hero who looks like he’s built like Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. They also accused us of presenting all women as victims, which was an outright lie and derailing tactic.

Their questions did take up quite a bit of time at the panel and served to derail the topic onto another tangent, which was frustrating for the panel and for those in the audience. It’s what they came to do, and in part, they succeeded. I would say that it brought up some great discussions though, allowing us to talk
about the lack of representation for people of colour in comics and to give well deserved props to artists like Sophie Campbell, who has done an amazing job in showcasing a broad range of bodies with her art in Jem and the Holograms.

It’s disappointing that they weren’t there to have a conversation or to listen to what we, and members of the audience, were saying. They wanted to stand up and have their say, but not to listen or try to understand the points of view other people in the room had. This was further proven by the video discussion they posted later last night, in which they mentioned our panel and that we were “donning the ball gowns of our victimhood”, which I’m not even entirely sure how to take. I will admit to not watching the whole video, and I think anyone who attempts to watch it would understand why.

Ahhhhhh yeah, that’s the shit. On Day 2 of the event, the H_
____ B______s were kicked out by Expo organizers. The best part? According to the exhibitor package, “No refund shall be given to exhibitors who are removedfrom the show.”

This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen on Kickstarter. I don’t even know what it is. It’s just pure insanity. Read the whole description. Here’s an excerpt:

In fact it I could not build on existing platforms, simply out of my own distaste for this inexcusable insanity which is the current convention for which there is no excuse besides a lack of moral vision that does not extend beyond ones own self-absorbed existence, which those who have the power and control over supplying this service have confessed to being in possessed by. I
am supremely unimpressed. Knowledge of these forms of low level operations has in fact caused me to do a self-evaluation and strengthen my bonds to my own roots and who I am as an individual which I proudly proclaim that I do not belong to man, I belong to God, if you take a close look at the 10 commandments you’ll see why, God is good, God is cool, God is a carrot not just a stick, a vision of something greater then ourselves, I will share this more later, but on the subject of integrity, it’s necessary to mention that God’s law, the 10 commandments, is my standard. It was the standard for the USA at it’s inception, which spurred the industrial revolution and for even the most modest in our country it has made life more heavenly then it would have been otherwise, and set an example for the world as well. Unfortunately this has not been preserved as it should have been, but let’s stick to personal computers, while noting the benefit of havin
g faith in God’s commandments, appeared to be the fingerprint of visibility, note the first four commandments requiring recognition for this service that one can imply God didn’t necessarily have to make, but out of his mercy and steadfast nature of God’s love, did so. Impressive the result of their application, it is a no-brainer following in this standard, that is a carrot not a stick, thank you God, I bow to you. I trust in you.